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The Faculty has published Volume 9 Number 7 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Matthew H. Kramer: The Demandingness of Deontological Duties (26/2018) Consequentialist doctrines have often been criticized for their excessive demandingness, in that the…

Oxford University Press has published the third edition of The Principles of Equity & Trusts by Professor Graham Virgo. The Principles of Equity & Trusts brings an engaging, contextual approach to the subject in this best-selling textbook. Graham Virgo explains the complex issues of trusts and Equity with unparalleled clarity, offering a rigorous a…

On April 25, 2018, the European Commission published a "Study in Support of the evaluation of the Database Directive". Although the Study was provided  by JIIP, the Joint Institute for Innovation Policy, and Technopolis, these bodies were assisted by two legal experts, Professor Estelle Derclaye (University of Nottingham) and Professor Lionel Bentl…

On Wednesday 25 April 2018, 169 scholars voiced their concerns over the proposed press publishers right (in Article 11 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market), which is currently at a critical stage in the EU legislative process (with a COREPER meeting in Council on 27 April and a final JURI meeting in June). Four of the signato…

The European Copyright Society (ECS) recently issued two Opinions on important copyright cases before the CJEU. Professor Bently led the drafting committee for the Opinion in relation to Case 476/17, Hutter v Pelham, which concerns questions referred by the German Federal Court of Justice in a case involving use of a sample from a sound recording b…

The European Copyright society (ECS) has announced it will be holding a one day conference, entitled European Copyright: Quo Vadis?, in Brussels on May 25, 2018. The conference will focus on the EU Copyright Package and issues arising for copyright from developments in Artificial Intelligence. Professor Lionel Bently, a founding Member and former C…

On the 11th of April, CIPIL’s Krzysztof Garstka presented his paper entitled "Between public security and data protection: legality of predictive Big Data surveillance within the EU data protection framework” at the annual conference of the British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association (BILETA), which took place in Aberdeen, Scotland.…

The Faculty's Professor Emeritus of Law John Spencer was invited to give evidence before the House of Lords EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee on Wednesday 18 April. Professor Spencer gave evidence alongside Mr Nick Vamos, Partner at Peters and Peters, on the topic of the proposed UK-EU security treaty in the light of the UK withdrawal from the EU, incl…

The Squire is delighted to announce that all University of Cambridge members now have access, both within the University and from anywhere in the world, to the Financial Times online direct via the FT‘s website, FT.com. The Financial Times is the world's premier newspaper for business and economics. The FT.com can be accessed on campus direct to ht…

The Faculty has published Volume 9 Number 6 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Andrew Sanger & Sir Michael Wood: The Immunities of Members of Special Missions (22/2018) This paper examines the history, law and procedure relating to special mission im…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published The Unity of Public Law? Doctrinal, Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives edited by Mark Elliott, Jason Varuhas (Melbourne Law School) and Shona Wilson Stark. This major collection contains selected papers from the second Public Law Conference, an international conference hosted…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In his lecture, Mr Grieve reflected on the steps being taken to prepare from the UK withdrawal from the EU following the referendum.  He especially focused on the protection of human rights, considering the interacti…

The European Central Bank (ECB) has selected Dr Alicia Hinarejos as one of its 2018 Legal Research Scholars. The European Central Bank’s Legal Research Programme was launched in 2008 to foster analysis of areas of law relevant to the ECB’s statutory tasks, and to establish closer contacts with scholars. Dr Hinarejos will be conducting research on t…

The fourth edition of the Cambridge Legal Theory Symposium will be held on 14 August 2018 at the University of Cambridge. We welcome abstracts that address legal questions from philosophical and theoretical perspectives. The keynote speaker is Professor Matthew Kramer, Professor of Legal and Political Philosophy, University of Cambridge. The tentat…

Oxford University Press has published The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples edited by Dr Jessie Hohmann and Professor Marc Weller, as part of the Oxford Commentaries on International Law series. The rights of indigenous peoples under international law have seen significant change in recent years, as various international bodies hav…